Apps

OpenAI Codex app logo featuring a stylized terminal symbol inside a cloud icon on a blue and purple gradient background, with the word “Codex” displayed below.

Codex desktop app now handles nearly your whole stack

Codex can now click, type, and navigate your system with…

Illustration of a speech bubble with code brackets inside, framed by curly braces on an orange background, representing coding conversations or AI-assisted programming.

Anthropic’s revamped Claude Code desktop app is all about parallel coding workflows

Anthropic has rebuilt the Claude Code desktop app around parallel…

AI Mode in Chrome showing AI-powered shopping assistant panel alongside a Ninja coffee machine product page with pricing and details

Chrome’s AI Mode puts search and pages side by side

Chrome’s AI Mode now lives next to your webpages, so…

Google Gemini AI

Google Gemini can now craft images from your personal photos

Nano Banana 2 inside Gemini pulls from your tastes, interests,…

Google Chrome Skills panel for recipe customization showing options like Vegan, Low-calorie, High-protein, grocery list, and meal prep features overlaid on a cooking recipe

Google Chrome’s new Skills feature makes AI workflows one tap away

Google is turning your most useful Gemini prompts into Chrome…

Google app AI Mode displaying detailed information about Monet's 'Impression, Sunrise' painting with image preview and key facts about the artwork

Google app for desktop rolls out globally on Windows

Google is rolling out its upgraded desktop app to Windows…

Gemini logo featuring a four-pointed star with smooth curved edges, filled with a rainbow gradient transitioning from red to purple. The star is centered on a white rounded square, set against a blue gradient background fading from dark at the edges to light near the center.

Google debuts Gemini app for Mac with instant shortcut access

The Gemini Mac app lets you pull up Google’s AI…

An open hand with the Instagram logo overlayed, featuring a gradient of pink, purple, orange, and yellow tones, set against a black background.

Instagram adds 15-minute window to edit comments

Instagram comments now come with an edit button, a 15‑minute…

Blue Samsung Messages icon with a white chat bubble and three dots on the left, a pointing hand emoji in the center, and the Google Messages icon with a rounded blue speech bubble on a white background on the right, illustrating the switch from Samsung Messages to Google Messages.

Samsung Messages is ending, and that’s not a bad thing

If you’re still hanging on to Samsung Messages, this is…

A Chrome browser window on a desktop shows Google’s blog article titled “All new features introduced this year,” with a left sidebar of color‑coded vertical tabs for apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive, while large callouts labeled “Vertical Tabs” on the left and “Immersive Reading Mode” on the right highlight the new features in a clean, light blue interface.

Google Chrome adds vertical tabs and immersive reading mode

Google Chrome now lets you stack tabs vertically and strip…

Colorful Google Maps Local Guides illustration showing a large circular gradient badge with a white star on the left, and on the right a stylized park scene with a woman walking a dog and a woman riding a bicycle among map location pins, plus small icons of a pencil and a green flag.

Google Maps April refresh focuses on photos, captions and contributor status

Google Maps is quietly rolling out three new tools that…

Colorful promotional artwork for Netflix Playground showing Elmo and Cookie Monster in the center surrounded by Peppa Pig, a blue elephant with a bird on its head, a pink dinosaur, a playful yellow character, puzzle pieces, crayons, numbers and curved rainbow shapes, with the Netflix Playground logo and App Store and Google Play badges at the bottom.

Netflix rolls out Playground app with ad-free games for kids under eight

Netflix Playground folds ad‑free, in‑app‑purchase‑free games into your existing subscription,…